azure-cost-management Skill
Azure cost optimization and financial governance. Use for Advisor recommendations, commitment discounts (reservations and savings plans), budgets, cost exports, anomaly alerts, credit and MACC tracking, orphaned resource detection, VM rightsizing, and retail price lookup. Published by microsoft in finops-toolkit.
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Deployment, Data analysis, Includes SKILL.md, Reusable instructions
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2 months ago · MIT license
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What is azure-cost-management Skill?
Azure cost optimization and financial governance. Use for Advisor recommendations, commitment discounts (reservations and savings plans), budgets, cost exports, anomaly alerts, credit and MACC tracking, orphaned resource detection, VM rightsizing, and retail price lookup. Published by microsoft in finops-toolkit. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.
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Key capabilities
- Includes SKILL.md support
- Reusable instructions support
- Deployment
- Data analysis
- Deployment use cases
- Data analysis use cases
Declared skill metadata
- Declared author: microsoft
- Declared license: MIT
- Compatibility: Requires Azure CLI authentication (az login) and appropriate RBAC permissions for Cost Management APIs.
- Source file: src/templates/agent-skills/azure-cost-management/SKILL.md
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These fields retain source and confidence evidence from the indexed SKILL.md.
Compatibility and setup
- Install or run with Copy skill directory
When to use azure-cost-management Skill
- Use it for deployment.
- Use it for data analysis.
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Source
- Creator: microsoft
- Repository: microsoft/finops-toolkit
- Skill file: src/templates/agent-skills/azure-cost-management/SKILL.md
What it does
Azure cost optimization and financial governance. Use for Advisor recommendations, commitment discounts (reservations and savings plans), budgets, cost exports, anomaly alerts, credit and MACC tracking, orphaned resource detection, VM rightsizing, and retail price lookup.
Skill instructions
Azure Cost Management Azure Cost Management and optimization skills. Provides recommendations, budget management, exports, alerts, and commitment tracking capabilities. Domain Knowledge | Domain | Purpose | Key Operations | |--------|---------|----------------| | azure-advisor | Cost recommendations | Query, suppress, manage recommendations | | azure-savings-plans | Savings plan analysis | Benefit recommendations, coverage, ROI | | azure-budgets | Budget management | Create budgets, notifications, action groups | | azure-cost-exports | Scheduled exports | FOCUS exports, backfill, troubleshooting | | azure-anomaly-alerts | Cost anomaly detection | Bulk alert deployment across subscriptions | | azure-reservations | Reserved instance analysis | Reservation recommendations, utilization, coverage, exchange/return | | azure-commitment-discount-decision | Commitment discount framework | Reservations vs savings plans decision criteria, hybrid strategy | | azure-credits | Credit tracking | Azur
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Frequently asked questions
What is azure-cost-management?
azure-cost-management is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. Azure cost optimization and financial governance. Use for Advisor recommendations, commitment discounts (reservations and savings plans), budgets, cost exports, anomaly alerts, credit and MACC.
Who is azure-cost-management best for?
azure-cost-management is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, deployment workflows, data analysis workflows.
How do I install azure-cost-management?
Install or run azure-cost-management using Copy skill directory. Check azure-cost-management for the latest setup command.
Is azure-cost-management actively maintained?
azure-cost-management may need a closer maintenance check before production use.
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